When the Core began to have it harder with creating the line, having a harder time reaching the edge, it should have noticed something being wrong. But it didn't, instead of moving on without a care, not realising its process wasn't working exactly as intended. The Entity did luckily notice the flaws a while after, though the damage had already been done.
Small leaks. Ones were noting but...
2021-11-07 07:19:39 +0000 UTC View PostYes, the Core had gone on the offensive before. Multiple times, really, each bringing death and destruction for both sides. Mainly the Queen’s however, which did prove the experience to be a good one. The losses on both sides might have been something, yet the strategic advantage gained by it was quite substantial. The near-hundreds of ants killed had delayed the Queen’s efforts to attack b...
2021-11-07 07:12:12 +0000 UTC View PostWatching rock explode again and again was perhaps fun to do for the first thirty times, but anything after that made it more melodramatic than anything else. The Core certainly knew that it had seen every possible way such an event could transpire, knowing more details about the process than anybody ever needed to know.
During the start of the process, the Mana would be directly injected ...
2021-11-07 07:11:30 +0000 UTC View Post[AN: Start of the chapter won't make much sense since Tables don't show on Patreon. Sorry about that]
[Light-Mastery]
Allows the user to manipulate the White sub-branch of magic with more skill.
Very Rare
Passive
… That certainly turned out better than the Cor...
2021-11-07 07:09:39 +0000 UTC View PostWhat was the most important thing to consider when picking out what one wanted to improve? Well… there were many things to think about, the least of all being which one would prove to be worth the most with what could be improved. Take, as an example [Willpower] and [Wisdom]. Both showed themselves as being at fourteen each yet they were actually both still at twelve. How's that so? It was be...
2021-11-07 07:07:57 +0000 UTC View PostHow and why the undead took another step up the power scale was something the Core briefly wondered about before it had to constantly start repairing the walls stopping the creatures from coming inside and killing everything around them. There was no way it should have happened naturally, right? It didn’t make sense for that to happen. The moment that the Black Mana had hit some kind of densi...
2021-11-07 07:06:46 +0000 UTC View PostTesting out the efficiency of a function meant to completely obliterate a creature was quite the hard thing to do when the Core itself had no real desire to put one of its own creatures inside. So… what was one to do when the stone needed to be seen if it could kill yet also not kill a creature?
One made a fake creature. A fake creature with all the specifications of a real one...
2021-11-07 07:05:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe answer to so many problems was very rarely not obvious afterwards. When a creature got the time to look back at their past actions, including the past not previously understood, things seemed to always melt together into one obvious mix of an answer. There were so many parts before, so many working, moving, and changing sub-areas that needed to be focused on. Yet, all that changed the momen...
2021-11-07 07:04:46 +0000 UTC View PostCharacter Screen
Name: -
Gender: Male
Level: 4
Class: Digger
Race: Giant-Ant
Title: Dungeon-Born
Health: 150/150
H-Regen: 0.12/sec
Mana: -/-
M-Regen: 0/sec 2021-11-07 07:03:08 +0000 UTC View Post
How did one grow Moss in half the time while also having twice the growth? Well… the answer was to have four times the sources of energy. Two ants currently standing on the [Moss] could only do so much, but what would the result be if eight did it instead? It was quite the potential just lying on the ground, ready to be used by all. Or, well, ready to be used if the requirements to fulfil it ...
2021-11-05 16:15:19 +0000 UTC View PostDigging wasn't something the Core ever thought it would have so much trouble doing. The first few minutes of doing it had been quite easy after all, so there might have been some part of the Entity that had grown over-confident again, taking larger swaths of material from the middle of the room. That might also have been why the entire floor nearly caved in on itself.
As luck would have i...
2021-11-05 16:10:13 +0000 UTC View PostCharacter Screen
Name: -
Gender: Male
Level: 2
Class: -
Race: Undead Giant-Ant
Title: Dungeon-Reject
Health: 150/150
H-Regen: 0.16/sec
Mana: -/-
M-Regen: 0/sec...
2021-11-04 06:58:19 +0000 UTC View PostA voice. It was not the voice of the Core ordering anything from those under it. Neither was it the voice of the [System], though that hadn't been heard since the very start. No, this was the voice of something foreign, something that had never been experienced before. The sound of the vocals echoed in the Entity’s head over and over again. Was it due to the power of the wielder or was that j...
2021-11-04 06:15:38 +0000 UTC View Post[AN: Forgot to put this in with the last batch so this is out of order. Sorry for that!]
The legs of the creatures stopped coming into its sight after a mere couple of seconds, there being enough to fully count up five [Giant-Ants]. None of those that had come in was a part of the Core’s repertoire, making it more and more obvious that there was no chance of th...
2021-11-04 05:31:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe world was bright, Mana of all kinds everywhere, plants showing up at every piece of the earth. There was nothing which laid barren, every piece of stone and wood and dirt covered with life. There was more than the Core had ever seen before. It was… beauty. There was nothing greater, nothing more complex than the sight that it had seen. It was truly life in its purest form. The Core could ...
2021-11-03 15:58:19 +0000 UTC View PostHow had the cores before the Entity anchored things in place? That was the question that the Core had for the world, even if none could answer it. So much thought had been spent coming up with the ideas of anchors, so many loops and hoops being jumped through to make sure it would work in theory. Yet, the Entity knew that it had been done before, knew that a thousand had thought of it before it...
2021-11-03 15:51:00 +0000 UTC View PostLevelling up… that had been something that the Entity had not done much of. It was not due to a lack of desire for it or anything. The Core wanted to level up more than anything since the benefits were so good. There was hardly a moment where the thought of more [Willpower] didn't cause some minor annoyance, mostly because the Core couldn't attain it easily.
There were too many risks a...
How did Mana-Veins work exactly? That was the question the Core had pondered for a long time. The things weren't exactly made of physical matter, the outer shell barely a layer of coloured Mana as it was. The entire thing was just enough to push other Mass out of the way so that it could move through the body efficiently. Yet, there was still some manoeuvrability in place that went changed cons...
2021-11-03 15:35:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe fight between the [Infested] and the level one ant was quite simpler than the other one. Within the first thirty seconds, everything had been decided. Both came at each other, just like before. However, the impact was quite different, the superior mass holding out and making it possible for the larger to flip the other on its back. While this could have been recovered from normally, the spe...
2021-11-03 15:27:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe two fought with a ferocity not seen much of before. The Core had witnessed the brutality of a varied degree earlier on in its life, having been a part of what was truly called straight-out sacrificial warfare. If both parties had quantity over quality, throwing the minions with no regard for their lives was the best tactic to have. A strong opponent could beat a hundred in one-on-on fightin...
2021-11-03 15:03:25 +0000 UTC View PostMana could affect creatures through nothing but exposure. The intensity and time-controlled the amount of effect it had, and the concentration did seem like it had some larger part to play as well. The Core honestly wasn't too sure how it worked yet, only knowing the main factors. There had been some theories about pollution of Mana working its way into the final product, just from what the sma...
2021-11-03 14:59:42 +0000 UTC View PostA [Skill] has been improved!
You have understood [Mana-Sense] more deeply
There were no lies to be had when it came to how [Mana-Sense] worked. It was a truly brilliant tool Utilitywise, not able to change much on its own but allow almost all other skills to have the edge needed to prosper. It was the sword that blinded the heavens, the lightning ...
The time for the second enlightenment had come. First, the Core had figured out the secrets of Arcane and Colour, able to tell the difference between a moment and the next. Truly a fulfilling achievement, and certainly one which would prove useful shortly. Yet there was still another påoint that needed to be made. Another task that needed fulfilling, one that would require more detail.
...
[Mana-Sense] had been upgraded once before. In that time, it had achieved a more in-depth range of colours it could see, averages splitting up into more colourful divergences. The things seeming so simply turned into more and more complex parts, the Core’s mind able to understand that there was a complexity not seen before.
It had been a hard path to take before, the Entity not having ...
With the [Blood-Moss] being so little, the Core wasn't able to simulate an actual scenario where the Ant walked across it. Instead, it stayed with one foot on the plant, never moving around. There were concerns that the realism of the test would be strained, the fact matter of constant contact being quite unrealistic.
How fast was the plant at recognizing friend from foe? Would it siphon ...
2021-11-03 14:01:49 +0000 UTC View PostMoving back away from the talks of the System and how it worked, the Core thought back to the original goals it had created before the fighting. It thought of the tasks set out to the creatures. The main goal set forth was the protection of the [Moss] while also guarding the area around it. That had been shown off as a massive success, the retaliation from the attack coming in full force. And w...
2021-11-03 13:56:17 +0000 UTC View PostCongratulations!
You have levelled up and reached level [4] You have been granted [1] attribute point.
Congratulations!
You have levelled up and reached level [5]!
The Core saw the two messages side-by-side, both coming at the same time. Which was weird, since one should have come much earlie...
With each burst of Mana sent out in a desperate bid to keep every single one of its minions alive, it became more and more obvious. The container that was kept in the Mana was beginning to run rather dry, to the point where it was getting dangerously close to zero. It would only take one or two more before the consequences would startup. The Core could just feel it.
How many had been kil...
The skill was taken with open arms, the Core not hating the name in any way. The hardship went through to get it, the work put into it… there was so much to unpack. So many creatures had been forced through a painful and short life, yet the trade was the ability to help so many others with one of the resources vital to their survival. A few deaths for the lives of everybody else. While it was...
2021-11-03 13:37:10 +0000 UTC View PostStamina might have been a vital part of the body’s anatomy. No, wait, check that off. It was a very important part of anything anatomy. Even if the Core didn't have access to it through the system, it knew that there was some part of its crystalline shape that had some manner of influence on it. The [Giant-Ants], as an example, didn't have access to Mana through the system, yet those...
2021-11-03 13:34:14 +0000 UTC View Post